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Director of Business Development

02/05/2018

Position Overview This position is focused on selling product development/design services with purchase orders ranging from $50,000 – $500,000 or more. The successful candidate must be confident working semi-autonomously in a new business development role. With the majority of our clients located in Silicon Valley, this position will be based in our Mountain View,…

219’s CES 2018 Staff Favorites

01/25/2018

Every year, 219 gets the whole team together to review last year’s accomplishments and plan next years goals. This year, we decided to meet up at CES in Las Vegas so we could see the latest consumer technologies and innovations first hand, some of which were from our clients! It’s not often that you get…

Global Component Shortage: Why it’s Happening and How You Can Protect Your Production Schedules

01/24/2018

If your company makes products with electronics in them, you’ve probably run into major component availability problems in the past year. We’ve certainly been seeing this with our clients’ products! It can be a huge headache when a component in your BOM becomes scarce. You might have to scramble to find and test a pin-compatible…

Exhibiting at the Embedded Systems/BIOMED Conferences

12/20/2017

Our first conference exhibit is in the books as a major milestone and big success. The Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) Silicon Valley was well attended by 219 Design this year. When we weren’t busy building our embedded systems knowledge and skills, we were working at our very first conference booth, perfectly located between the BIOMEDevice…

The Art in Artificial Intelligence

11/28/2017

“I think art can be part of the solution because art can inspire people to look at an issue they might otherwise ignore or reject. Art has the power to seduce, engage, and address our universal humanity in ways that create important conversations.” — Shepard Fairey The Influence of Media on the Perception of…